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The Power of Images in Early Modern Science

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Lefèvre

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Jürgen Renn

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Urs Schoepflin

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Mechanics Between Practical and Theoretical Knowledge and the Mediatory Function of Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Challenging Images of Artillery

      • Jochen Büttner, Peter Damerow, Jürgen Renn, Matthias Schemmel
      Pages 3-27

    3. Ships, Science and the Three Traditions of Early Modern Design

      • David McGee
      Pages 28-46

    4. Art and Artifice in the Depiction of Renaissance Machines

      • Paolo Galluzzi
      Pages 47-68

    5. The Limits of Pictures

      • Wolfgang Lefèvre
      Pages 69-88

    6. Reframing the Language of Inventions: The First Theatre of Machines

      • Luisa M. Dolza
      Pages 89-104

  3. Theories of Matter Between Alchemy and Atomism and the Autonomy of Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Alchemical Iconography at the Dawn of the Modern Age

      • Anne-Françoise Cannella
      Pages 107-116

    3. The Invention of Atomist Iconography

      • Christoph Lüthy
      Pages 117-138

  4. The Classification of Life and the Interaction Between Images and Texts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Image and Text in Natural History, 1500–1700

      • Brian W. Ogilvie
      Pages 141-166

    3. Notes on the Function of Early Zoological Imagery

      • Allan Ellenius
      Pages 167-180

    4. Elephant, Mammoth, Unicorn, or What?

      • Alexandre Métraux
      Pages 181-193

  5. Depicting the World at Large and the Hidden Potential of Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Planetary Diagrams — Descriptions, Models, Theories

      • Bruce Eastwood, Gerd Graβhoff
      Pages 197-226

    3. Images, Models and Symbols in Copernican Propaganda

      • Giancarlo Nonnoi
      Pages 227-250

    4. Edmond Halley and Visual Representation in Natural Philosophy

      • Alan Cook
      Pages 251-262

  6. Systems of Knowledge and their Representation by Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
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    2. Encyclopaedias and Architecture in the Sixteenth Century

      • Annarita Angelini
      Pages 265-288
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About this book

Wolfgang Lefevre, Jiirgen Renn, and Vrs Schoepflin General The origin of this volume is a workshop held has a deeper, more complex structure which in 1997 in Berlin as part of a series of work­ must be assumed if its analysis is only based shops organized in the framework of the on text. In fact, the analysis of the function of Network on Science and the Visual Images images in the early modern period shows that 1500 - 1800 funded by the European Science they mediated not only between science and Foundation and initiated by William Shea. its cultural context, but also between practi­ Meanwhile a selection of contributions was cal knowledge and its theoretical reflection thoroughly revised and prepared for publica­ in scientific theories. tion together with additionally invited papers The analysis of images thus constitutes an for this book. The result is a volume which important branch of the history of science we hope corresponds to the original inten­ that on the one hand is conceived of as part tion of the Network to contribute to a histori­ of a more general history of culture and on cal reconstruction of the role of images in the the other hand as a historical epistemology of history of science, still neglected because of knowledge. This book is not a systematic and the traditional focus of the history of science comprehensive account of scientific images on texts corresponding to a concentration on and the early modern period.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Lefèvre, Jürgen Renn, Urs Schoepflin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Power of Images in Early Modern Science

  • Editors: Wolfgang Lefèvre, Jürgen Renn, Urs Schoepflin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8099-2

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-2434-6Published: 23 July 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8099-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 308

  • Topics: History of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

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